Friend of the show, historian James Jefferies joins us to discuss the much maligned Bristol Blenheim. When the aircraft was developed, the Blenheim was faster than the RAF’s latest fighters. But, come the outbreak of…
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48: Fly Girls with Keith O’Brien
Amelia Earhart looms large in aviation history, but she was one of a cohort of incredible female flyers in 1920s America who fought hard to break the mould and show that they could out-fly and…
47: his Majesty’s Airship with S.C. Gwynne
The R101 was the great hope for Imperial Air Travel in late 1920s Britain. The brainchild of Christopher Birdwood Thomson and the Imperial Airship Scheme, R101 was the government-backed of the two grand airships, the…
46: Mosquito with Rowland White
On Wednesday 21st March 1945, the RAF’s 140 Wing of De Havilland Mosquito FB.VI fighter bombers, with an escort of Mustangs, attacked the Shellhus in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Shellhus was the HQ for the Gestapo…
45: ‘Pegs’ the Two-Seat Hawker Hurricane with Hurricane Heritage
Hurricane Heritage has the incredible job of operating the world’s only two-seat Hawker Hurricane, BE505 ‘Pegs’. Starting life as a Canadian Car and Foundry-built Mark XII with the RCAF serial AG287, the aircraft was converted…
44: 100 Years of Civil Aviation with Ben Skipper
Civil aviation is a vast undertaking and one that kept me in and out of trouble for 20 years of my working life. Author Ben Skipper has taken on the task of looking at the…
43: The RAF Museum with CEO Maggie Appleton
The RAF Museum sites at Hendon in London and RAF Cosford in the Midlands are home to a collection that tells the century-old story of the RAF. It is where my obsession with the Hawker…
42: Flying B-17s with the 390th Bomb Group with Col Richard Bushong
Every Thursday, Col. Richard Bushong heads over to the 390th Memorial Museum and holds court under the nose of the museum’s B-17 Flying Fortress and answers questions for all the visitors who approach him. Dick…
41: The 390th Memorial Museum with Bill Buckingham
The 390th Memorial Museum is a museum within the Pima Air and Space Museum dedicated to the memory of the men of the 390th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force who were based at…
40: Empire Flying Boats at War Part 3 with Phil Vabre
As the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, their forces raced south towards Australia. The evacuation towards Australia would prove costly for the Empire Class flying boats of Qantas. In part 3 of our look at the…